skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Notice you are doing exactly what you accused 'ogama' of doing. ogama made a point that is pretty valid IMHO, namely that the OP had a sad high school experience and is trying to convince herself that not having fun was fun. You assumed ogama must be projecting, in other words that ogama's high school experience was bad. That could be true. But just as likely, it wasn't. Maybe yours wasn't so good?

For reference, my own high school experience was mixed to be sure. Parts were amazing, other parts sucked. I don't know anyone whose high school experience was 100% awesome. But I do know a lot whose experience sucked 100%. And those people often broadcast statements to the contrary.
It's not required, per se, but it is idiomatic. You will never see an unnamed parameter in the standard library, or in most other people's code. In a sense, the parameter name is actually part of the method name

Wikipedia has this example of Objective-C, which illustrates what it looks like:
[window addNewControlWithTitle:@"Title"
xPosition:20
yPosition:50
width:100
height:50
drawingNow:YES];

This is essentially calling the addNewControlWithTitle:xPosition:yPosition:width:height:drawingNow: method on the window object.
I'm not judging dude. But it is what it is...
A lot of discussion on this, already happening at:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633443
The private keys need never have existed on that server. On the occasions which they are used, they need never touch the server, and the machine they're actually used on (likely a laptop with a LiveCD) doesn't need to directly communicate with the server so identifying and targeting it would be futile.
Part of what makes me happy at my job is when I build software that I see other people using, or finding convenient. It mostly makes up for all of the negativity that I can feel throughout the work day to hear people complimenting me on a nice plugin or a feature that no one thought would be useful, but becomes part of the standard workflow.

I think part of the zen of programming is understanding that problems exist, and if you are given the proper tools you can solve pretty much all of them. I can solve any general problem that comes my way, the only times I stumble is when I get caught up in my company's complex business logic that must be implemented. This is a minor issue, and really has more to do with my lack of experience than my skill at programming. So don't let bugs get you down, just put one letter in front of the other and keep on trying.
It's not more insecure, but it seems impossible for the end-user to know whether a Stripe form that just popped up is real or fake. Whereas you can first redirect the user to a well-known payment site, where they can verify the site's identity from the SSL info in the URL bar, before trusting it to enter their credit card data.
"I’ve worked in the internet industry for almost 10 years... After almost 6 months of startup job fairs, Silicon Alley newsletters, digital DUMBO drinks and 2-3 applications per week I had yet to receive a single invitation to an interview."

Can any NYC tech people comment on why that might be the case? She mentions something vague about her experience being UX and it sounds like she doesn't design or do programming. Is her skill set too nebulous to get her an interview?
I love the Stripe service and use it anytime I have the need for accepting CC payments. However, as a consumer, I see myself choosing the Paypal option for the sole reason that I only have to type in a password vs. taking out my credit card. Its the same reason I love buying items from Amazon. Any alternative to Paypal has to make the buying process just as easy.
Is not clear to me if is only on-site, or for anyone in the world...
While I do like that they have a standardized button now, I wouldn't say that the button itself is gorgeous.
It's kinda ironic that "refusing to watch TV" is now considered "active" action.
Besides how does a pop up make it more likely to be an iframe than just any old iframe?
I didn't write the questions, so the purpose of them really isn't up to me. However, I don't really agree that they are simple "type into google" questions.

For example, suppose you let someone google around for a half hour to try to answer the question about how to determine if a graph is bipartite. Now, you spend about a half an hour doing an oral exam to see how well they understand what they just regurgitated.

I suspect that you would see a wide range of performance, but that people with certain academic backgrounds might do much better than others. That's the "more interesting question" that I had in mind.

Actually, suppose someone had never take graph theory came up with a novel but ultimately flawed attempt at an algorithm. That might be a stronger sign of talent in this area than someone who had taken the class and was able to reproduce an algorithm (even if that student showed a genuine understanding of it).
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> Either way, I’m hoping PayPal, Google and everyone else follows suit, because buying something online should be frictionless by now.

This aesthetic choice doesn't seem to change the friction much. We're still typing in 16-digit codes by hand.
100%....Most customers don't even understand https vs http. In the tech bubble, we definitely recognize things like that, but for normal people, they determine their trust by the look and brand name on the payment form.

This button is the first step for stripe to start being a trusted name by more skeptical e-customers.
No, not iPhone games. We should be encouraging kids to program for ecosystems that are free to enter, and that don't censor apps for disagreeing with their delicate sensibilities.
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I agree in theory, but worth is subjective.
FB announcement where I found this - https://www.facebook.com/thinkstats/posts/325778617519425
Firefox 16 adds more developer muscle, but Mac OS features lag
Yes, having so many bugs -- they must either be awful at programming, or tried to release too many features with not enough testing. Reducing features probably would have helped a lot.
>Its the same reason I love buying items from Amazon.

Truth. I wonder if Amazon has looked into entering this market.
It looks like if you want the memcheck functionality on the client, memcheck.js must be distributed with your "compiled" javascript code.
I'm genuinely curious what you think the most likely attack vector currently is and what the next most low-hanging security fruit for coinbase are.

From my perspective it looks like coinbase is currently the most secure and redundant way to store your bitcoins. Of course everyone could store them on their own and design my own security system, but I doubt many people can do better than what the OP describes.
I dislike Pandora and much prefer Grooveshark. I'd like to see Grooveshark make a similar post, but I have a feeling it'd leave me sad.
They signed with a label because of the advance first and foremost.
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633443

Actual link to the site (Stripe): https://stripe.com/docs/button
Like a BOSS.

How about the Apple Store?
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In case any Stripe folks read this, I tested it with an invalid month (13) and valid year (16,15,13,12 in that order) and valid everything else, and every time it put the red error highlight around the year instead of the month.

No comment box on post page, so posting here instead.
Paying with Amazon is mostly frictionless for me. If I remember correctly from my purchase on louisck.net on Sunday, it was click to get to Amazon login page, click to login to Amazon account, click to use card ending in 9432, click to confirm.
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There are certainly happy people working at startups, and happy people working at large companies like Microsoft. Certainly Microsoft's JobsBlog is going to promote the benefits of working at Microsoft. It's up to you to decide if his points resonate with you.

It's worth going to the original post and reading the six bullet points. They're not dishonest, and they don't misrepresent the company.

If "you will launch code on day 1" is more important to you than "our benefits are the best in the business", you may want to work for a startup. For many 22 year olds, this is the case.
I would trust Stripe, but only after seeing it verified as the owner of the SSL certificate of the website I'm using. There's way too much phishing going on for me to trust anything just shown in HTML branding..

Of course I realize that 'normal' people might trust anything, but it still won't make me trust it any more. So I'm not quite sure in what situation I would personally ever be able to use these nice Stripe button payments.
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Hey everyone, I've been working on a source translator that aims to be a superset of VimL with some other features as well. Why, you ask?

Good question.

Looking for contributors!
Oh come on. My label of "dishonest" was in regards to a statement, not you personally, just like your label of "astoundingly naive" against me.

And I didn't speculate about motives. I'm not sure what statements of mine you're taking so much offense to, but your speech has also been brusque and uncharitable at times ("Who are you to say...", "Here's a final clue:").

I also went out of my way to empathize with Mozilla's concerns and reasoning for not wanting to support NaCl, whereas you show no appreciation for why someone might ever legitimately want to run native code on the web.
I always thought grooveshark was 1 step away from being sued into oblivion. Aren't they not paying royalties? I thought their excuse was the music content was uploaded by users.
Thanks for the support, but that's not what I meant. NaCl + Pepper is like a VM where the compiler does the heavy lifting so the native code can run safely (Software Fault Isolation, SFI -- wild pointers lead to a safe non-exploitable crash), rather than a JITting or MMU- or hypervisor-based VM doing the heavy lifting at runtime.

It's quite clever, but still enough of a new thing that Chrome also sandboxes NaCl'ed code out of process. Belt and braces are good. No silver bullets.

But a VM is as a VM does. This is part of Google's VM-set and not any other browsers. The rule still applies.

Truly unsafe native code in plugins (e.g., un-NaCl'ed Flash) runs out of process too, and sandboxed to some extent, but it can cause problems that are not contained (and did at the last CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest, IIRC).
Sigh. Not all open source projects are community projects. That doesn't make them proprietary. I'm disappointed to see this kind of confusion on HN.

Rust doesn't have much of a community around it, besides Mozilla. Does that make it "proprietary"? Nope.

We all know NaCl is not going to be adopted-- not because it's not good enough, but because it's too good, and would threaten the native app ecosystems of Apple and Microsoft. pNaCl, same story. Google might end up using it as an app delivery mechanism in ChromeOS; that's about the limit of its potential usefulness.

It's particularly ironic to hear Brendan Eich complain about the lack of a standards-first approach in NaCl, since ECMAScript was designed behind closed doors at a single company. Anyway, ECMAScript seems to be good enough for building web UIs, and it's even a little less verbose than its "older brother" (whom it resembles not at all). So I think its quasi-monopoly is secure. I hope they pull the TypeScript extensions into the core language in the next version.
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The title is inaccurate. It should be "Analyst: No BB10 Debut Until March"
> We intend to try this out with sweet.js, building something like "restrict mode" (http://restrictmode.org) as a module you can import.

Oh cool!
Security concerns that occupy 90%+ of our architects' minds:

o What happens if one or more employees goes rogue?
o What happens if an employee is "hit by a truck"?
o What happens if an employee is blackmailed/extorted?
o What happens if your offsite archive is vandalized/broken
into/crashed into by a plane?

These all have solutions that have been in place for 20+ years in the military/banking industry.
Isn't WebSQL supposed to be replaced by IndexedDB?(which FF has btw)
Don't mess with people's porn. This will usher in an era of no more patent trolls.

Or, more likely, everything will continue on as normal.
Maybe you can sneakily install Prey to make things easier? http://preyproject.com/
Would be cool if Vimperator integrated it though! E.g., :! could give you access within the Vimp command line itself.
Hey man! We're on the lookout. We're based in Kirribilli. We're flying under the radar at the moment so I'll email you with details :)
You wrote, very first comment at top:

"To dis NaCl on this basis and not even mention PNaCl is dishonest."

That was in response to my slides. You were calling me dishonest. Come on yourself!

You then went on about "propaganda" and scary salt crystals. Something is off right there. Mozilla doesn't make propaganda and we have a tiny fraction of Google's budget (which I can assure you has been deployed commercially to push NaCl).

I don't think your tone or content are balanced on any of this, and you at least climbed down on the salt crystals. Can you do likewise on the "dishonest"?
Don't all modern browsers warn of (or block) mixed HTTP/HTTPS content?
What happens to vested stock in case of death or dismemberment?
Our founders agreement doesn't address what will happen to a founders vested stocks in case of death or dismemberment. My understanding was that generally you should be able to transfer stocks to beneficiaries as long as they're in your will or in the beneficiary list of the company that manages them (like Fidelity).

Can investors put a restriction on transferring stocks (other than allowing beneficiaries to sit on the board)? I was curious how others have handled this? Can you please share your story.
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I did say that some of the questions are "type into google" questions. The bipartite-graph question isn't -- but most people will have never seen that particular question in class, either. That one is a "can you take material you should know and come up with something new" question... just like the TLB question in part 2 and another question in part 3.
Started making a site this week that uses these features. Select or take a pic, touch it and move around to pick a color out of it, click the color bar to get a solid color image of that color, download it, set it as wallpaper, BAM! your background matches your outfit, case, car, new lamp, room where you dock your phone, anything. http://www.solidbg.com/beta/

It's hosted on a AWS S3 instance, no server side code. I love how much power a simple static html/js/css site can have these days and it's getting better every day.

I also ran into the exact same issues, rotation and squashing. I did a small work around for the squashing, not in a great way but it's in the js file.
What does Facebook itself not do that this hypothetical software would?
That depends too - are you going to miss some opportunity because you finished your work at 11:00 PM rather than 10:00 PM? Because if you're not, why not take an hour out, have dinner with the family, and then go back to work for a few hours once the kids are in bed?

I have several people on my team that arrange their day like that, and if I had a family, I would probably do it too. Actually, I often do it anyway, ducking out of work for a late afternoon or evening social activity and then putting in a couple hours from home around midnight. I find that taking a break often makes that late-night work session a lot more productive than if I'd just worked straight through.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it gorgeous, it's just an extension of the default Bootstrap theme[1].

I guess if your site is using the default Bootstrap theme, then that's great, but in and of itself it is not eye-catching IMO.

1. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Yup. Duh.
does PNaCl work? do you know the answer to that question?
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Yeah ... but this button is making fishing super-easy. I'm really not sure it's a good idea (the iframe is a clever trick, but the interface could very easily be copy/paste in a fishing website. Users would have no way to check if their credit card is stolen by the website).
I agree that you, the OP, or anyone is entitled to not like the fact that the mainstream meaning is changing (or find it ridiculous).

As I understand it, the conflict is that essentially this:
Person A has adopted a word to mean a certain static thing.
Person B interprets that word differently (or persons B-Z).

Person A is entitled to feel it is ridiculous, sure.

Person B is equally entitled to feel ownership of that word, unless you think that Person A's prior self-identification with that word or longer history of usage is sufficient to warrant some sort of authority over its common usage.

Would you understand why someone who self identifies as a geek might be offended if you were adamant that they didn't "embody geek culture"?

Words mean different things to different people. People got worked up over pg's supposedly narrow interpretation of the word "startup" in "Startup=Growth".

Do what you do.
Can you spam your own Facebook Timeline?
The question - Can you be banned for posting on your own personal Facebook timeline? Eg. I post and share my Clickbank and other referral links on my own Facebook timeline as a Status (What's on your mind?) post. I do NOT post these shared links on any friend's page, or on any groups or pages. Just on my own timeline i.e. only for my friends to see. Assume that all these posts are not abusive, no nudity etc i.e. safe content. Can my friends go to my Timeline, click on the posts and report it as spam and have my own posts on my own timeline be taken down and ultimately my Facebook account banned? If a friend does not want to see my posts on their newsfeed, they can either unfriend me and/or select the option to now show my posts in their newsfeed right? But can they get my account banned for spam posting up my own shared links on my own timeline? Thanks for the feedback.
Waiting for the the day us New Zealanders can use this instead of PayPal.
Wikipedia describes Asperger's as a "pervasive developmental disorder", characterised by "significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests" and also often "physical clumsiness and atypical use of language." This description, along with my impression of how people with the condition function in life, brings to my mind an image of people who are socially-blind, unable to avoid constantly tripping, stumbling and smashing into the obstacles of social terrain around them.

While I support the move to view Asperger's more as a different way of being human rather than a defect per se, this does not to me sound like the making of a new master race. If Zynga was the result of a Asperger's conspiracy to hijack the frivolous satisfaction pathways of "neurotypicals" and so take over the world, I might think differently. But it's not. People with Asperger's don't seem to be interested in conquering the neurotypical world, they seem to be happiest staying at home playing with computers and avoiding other people.

Basically, my impression of Asperger's sufferers is that they lack the social insight and intuition to succeed in the real world. They do okay in carefully-constructed bubbles with interesting non-human toys and machines to play with. But they can't cope with normal human beings.

Additionally, your characterisation of normal human beings as too dumb and clueless to resist mindless games is... rather crude I think. You sound bitter.
I don't think that is what Stripe is meant to do. That button doesn't even charge your customer. It provides only a token that you can use server-side to charge the customer.
Anyone in the world.
It seems whether the ruling sets a precedent or not is irrelevant, since the Federal Circuit will just ignore it anyway.
Agreed. Hope they don't pull a twitter and require devs to use their buttons.
Until your team grows above 5 people, at which point you make them money. The loss-leader is a tried and true business model.
Does Pandora have to pay mechanical rights to Harry Fox Agency? I thought that only applied to downloads (non-streaming).
Eero Simoncelli's guide to linear algebra is very good too and likely more concise, although it doesn't cover eigenvectors and eigenvalues.

http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/NOTES/geomLinAlg.pdf
I might be missing something big, but it seems like linear algebra is then just an overly complicated way of describing what should be a simple toolbox of spreadsheet manipulation functions, kind of like an extra module for python. Why is it given such special emphasis then, it would be like teaching the datetime or sched modules.
This article sort of rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. I understand the problems with PayPal and the benefit of companies like Stripe competing, but an article gushing over a bootstrap-esque button on a payment popup? Comes across as inane, at best...
I've often wondered, though, how much of the "blinking lights" factor is useful and how much is just to impress clients (or to entertain us geek sysadmin types :D ).
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I guess they could rate limit you if you are posting too much too fast or if you are posting programmatically.
Crush the castle came first: http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
Cheers!

Thank you :)
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If you are asking whether Facebook could ban your account, the answer is yes. Section 3-1 at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms states: "You will not post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on Facebook."

If you are asking whether this is likely to happen, you should probably be asking your friends whether they are likely to report your posts.
The physics, while not dating back as far, were also present in flash games pre-Angry Birds, the most popular being Crush the Castle. Angry birds brought a slightly simpler aiming mechanism and (probably most importantly) a much more polished feel to the genre.
Forumer is down since a week, and hides it
I think the point is not that music software enables you specifically would be able to produce worthwhile music, but that it enables many people who are musically talented to create and distribute their work. There is, of course, an implicit assumption that there are a large number of such gifted people, but that assumption may not be as outlandish as it first appears. I had many friends from high school marching band who earned pocket money playing at weddings and such, yet every single one gave up music by the time they graduated from college.

We all know that anecdotes are not data, but the legacy music distribution model seems to be optimized for using labor efficiently a case where fixed and marginal costs are higher than they currently are. It is far from obvious that those optimizations are good ones where the cost of recording equipment has dropped by orders of magnitude and the cost of distributing a single song is so low that people will do it for free.
But doesn't paying the 99$ tithe mean that I can list mobile programmer on my resume?
The "hide" part : the "Server status" link has disappeared from the main mirror (http://www.forumer.com/).
Great so now when you deal with extortion you also have to factor in the risk that the judge ends up forcing you to pay money you don't have to fight a frevious lawsuit.

I wonder how much the lawyers guild payed him.
Maybe its because they're all in the habit of resizing images and forgot to look at the original.